Question

A chart for beans and carrots are shown below. You can find the number of seeds per row by dividing the length of the garden by the distance between the seeds. Then you subtract 1 since the seeds cannot be planted at the edge of the garden.

Answer 1

See the attached worksheet.

Explanation:

This assumes that the second "Beans" entry was supposed to be "Carrots, instead.

Note how the equations match the describtion in the paragraph. The multiply the only portion of the equation not explained is the (3y+5) expression in both equations. By process of elimination (marked), this must be the area of the garden.

Since we are not given an actual numeric value for the area, the only thing we can write in Part B is to duplicate the simplified equations from Part A.